Poetry

“A Hand Full of Water is the most compelling volume in German verse since the work of Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. […] The lucent version by Chantal Wright captures the verve and fluid images of Sofronieva’s poetry. In the best sense her translation stands as an original book of poetry.” —Willis Barnstone

“For Tzveta Sofronieva, language is water that finds resistance across borders, her poetry flowing from her Balkan roots into her adopted German tongue, here iridescent in Chantal Wright’s beautiful translation, ‘seeking clues in the sand / that point to meaning’.” —Jeffrey Yang